About Shontel
Shontel Taylor Harris is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Texas with 12 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, self esteem, and depression. She speaks English and works with people who are ready to take steps toward feeling more capable and steady in daily life.
Her approach begins by listening to each person's story and spotting strengths they already have.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. She aims to help people name what’s troubling them, try new ways of coping, and build confidence that lasts beyond the session. Shontel has worked across a range of challenges tied to attachment and relationships.
She helps people understand abandonment worries, family of origin issues, blended family strain, communication problems, and patterns linked to avoidant personality traits. She also addresses experiences of domestic violence, divorce and separation, and related emotional difficulties. She supports work on body image, feelings of emptiness, control issues, and forgiveness.
For young people and adults with disruptive mood patterns, she brings experience with Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder and co-occurring concerns. The goal is clearer thinking and steadier mood over time. Therapy with her can include practical strategies for managing anxiety and stress, real-time problem solving for relationship struggles, and step-by-step work to rebuild self-esteem.
She treats the person, not just the problem, and collaborates on goals that feel realistic and meaningful.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Shontel uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach helps people learn specific coping skills to reduce anxious thoughts and manage stress day to day; this involves practicing new responses and tracking what helps. Another approach concentrates on relationships and attachment patterns, helping people notice recurring interaction styles and try different communication choices to improve closeness and reduce conflict.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with each person about their goals, past efforts, and what feels doable. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan based on what is most helpful for the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy work around a busy life. Video lets people see facial cues and practice conversations in real time, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for ongoing reminders and brief support. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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